The panoply of generous benefits that Zimbabwe’s former leader, Robert Mugabe will enjoy in retirement has been published by his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a gazette.

According to the gazette, Mugabe shall enjoy no fewer than the services of six security personnel, two drivers, two private secretaries and two aide-de-camp officers and two office attendants.

His office will be fully furnished, with at least a landline telephone and a cell phone, two computers and such other office equipment and materials as might be determined by the reigning President.

Mugabe, who already lives in a blue roof palace in Harare will get in addition a housing allowance to be determined by Mnangagwa, or a single private residence acquired or constructed on his behalf at any place of his choice in Zimbabwe or payment of a lump sum equal to the value of the private residence.

Retired football star George Weah is a solid favorite to become Liberia’s next president as voters go to the polls Tuesday in the West African nation.

The 1995 world football player of the year, Weah won the first round on Oct. 10 beating Vice President Joseph Boakai, 73, by a 38 percent to 30 percent margin. They’re battling to succeed Harvard-educated former banker Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who’s due to step down in January. Commonly known as Ma Ellen, Johnson Sirleaf defeated Weah in two previous elections.

“We want a better future for our children,” Annie Ballah, a 35-year-old mother of two, said at the Kendeja voting center in Paynesville, a suburb of the capital, Monrovia. “I want my next president to provide free education and build roads that will increase trade.”

The ANC has recommended that the government should immediately and unconditionally downgrade the South Africa’s Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. The policy change was following US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The final decision has been taken at the ANC’s National Conference, which is the highest decision making body of the party.

The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Liberia has released its preliminary report on Tuesday’s presidential runoff polls in the country, declaring it as peaceful, transparent and fair.

Head of the mission and former President of Ghana, Mr John Mahama, presented the report at a joint press conference with the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) in Monrovia on Wednesday evening.

However, Mahama was quick to note that the declaration was limited to the point of vote counting.

“The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission noted with satisfaction the peaceful conduct of the Dec. 26, 2017 poll in the Republic of Liberia.

Angola has suffered a week of fuel shortages, a bitter irony for one of Africa's leading oil producers, and a hardship that some people blame on opponents of President Joao Lourenco.

The majority of petrol stations in the capital Luanda have had long lines of motorists for seven days now, all waiting for the chance to fill up their tanks.

"We don't have any more," said Henriques Carvalho, a pump attendant in the Bairro Popular district.

Ugandan legislators voted overwhelmingly late on Wednesday to remove from the constitution an age cap of 75 for presidential candidates, allowing President Yoweri Museveni, 73, to seek re-election at the next polls in 2021. At the end of Wednesday's daylong House debate, which capped a protracted and violence-marred process to remove that age limit, MPs voted 315-62 in favour of the amendment.